BY Brian Scott Lipton . . . Since the Broadway revival of John Kander and Fred Ebb’s delicious 1920s-era musical Chicago first opened in November 1996, the fictional Cook County jail has seen countless women pass through its proverbial revolving door as the “merry...
By Marcina Zaccaria . . . In the delicate art of musical theater development, Brilliance comes a long way in sharing the joys and sorrows of the fame game. With Book, Music & Lyrics by Lance Lewman and Additional Music & Lyrics by Kristan King & Gabriel...
The Off Broadway Alliance will again sponsor 20at20, the bi-annual celebration of Off Broadway. The popular promotion, which begins May 9th and continues through May 29th, makes $20 tickets for participating Off Broadway plays and musicals available to theatre-goers...
By JK Clarke . . . Twenty five years ago (1997) Paula Vogel’s critically acclaimed and Pulitzer Prize-winning How I Learned to Drive took on the very complicated subject of intra-family sexual abuse. Her approach, which took into account the emotional makeup of...
Lehman Trilogy 9 Nominations - Off-Broadway musicals Harmony and Kimberly Akimbo 8 Nominations . The most recognized Broadway musicals of the season are MJ the Musical and Paradise Square 7 nominations each. Nominees for the annual John Gassner Award — for a new...
Tony Award Winner Adrienne Warren (TINA: The Tina Turner Musical) and three-time Tony Award Nominee Joshua Henry (Carousel) will announce the 75th Annual Tony Award Nominations on Monday, May 9, 2022. The Nominations Announcement will take place on the Tony Awards...
The New York City premiere of The Legend of The Waitress & The Robber, written by Renee Philippi and directed by Ms. Philippi and Eric Nightengale, with an original score by Lewis Flinn will perform May 25 thru May 29 at Dixon...
Arnie Roman's new musical, SURVIVING THE ROSENTHALS will make its world premiere in New York at Teatro Latea for three performances only:Tuesday, May 3 @ 9 PM; Wednesday, May 4 @ 6:30 PM; and Saturday, May 7 @ 4:30 PM.The theatre is located at 107 Suffolk St, New York...
Currently in production at Abingdon Theatre Company, Queens Girl in the World by Caleen Sinnette Jennings, directed by Paige Hernandez, looks at one young woman’s journey of self-discovery at the onset of the Civil Rights era as it chronicles the misadventures of...
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . When it comes to sucking you into the vortex of a funny, violence-steeped dramatic world, few playwrights can do it with quite the mesmerizing theatrical panache of Anglo-Irish playwright Martin McDonagh (The Pillowman). Give him a gifted...
By Carol Rocamora . . . What just happened?!!!!! That’s what you’ll say, as you emerge, shaken, from Studio 54, where The Minutes, a stick of dramatic dynamite by Tracy Letts, is now exploding nightly. It all starts benignly – in the city council room of a small town...
TheShubert Organization and Neil Meronannounce today Some Like It Hot will begin performances on Broadway this fall on Tuesday, November 1 and officially open Sunday, December 11 at the Shubert Theatre (225 West 44th Street). This brand-new...
By Carole Di Tosti . . . For an uplifting journey into the realms of fantasy and delight, see the titular Broadway production of The Little Prince, based on the classic 1943 novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This immersive spectacle is currently running at the...
By Ron Fassler . . . The memory play is a fairly common staple of American drama, especially ones with a grown narrator stepping in and out as they participate in their own past (Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie is always in the back of every...
Mrs. Doubtfire, the new musical comedy, returned to Broadway at the Stephen Sondheim Theatre (124 W 43rd St). Making their Broadway debuts last night April 14 were Tyler Wladis (Christopher Hillard), Austin Elle Fisher (Natalie Hillard) and Renée Reid (swing)! Titus...
By Sandi Durell . . . The effervescence of life . . . we repeat rituals, saying the same little dogmas and platitudes to family and friends as if laid down in stone hoping to influence as we move forward in this time capsule of life. And so it is with...
David Staller, Artistic Director of Gingold Theatrical Group has announced that Brenda Braxton, Alison Frasier, Harriet Harris, David Lee Huynh, Judith Ivey, Jefferson Mays, Charlotte Moore, Thom Sesma, Renee Taylor, Jon Patrick Walker, Karen Ziemba, and more will...
By Melissa Griegel . . . Honoree George C. White was honored on April 11th, by the Eugene C. O’Neill Theater Center at the 21st Annual Monte Cristo Award Gala. This year’s gala was held at Gotham Hall in New York City. The Monte Cristo Award is named for the New...
By Samuel L. Leiter . . . Berlin, the late 1920s, the Jazz Age, the rise of the Nazis, and the world of entertainers and cabarets, old friends. Such is the background of—sorry, no, not the one you’re thinking of—but Harmony: A New Musical, with music by beloved...
Review by Sandi Durell . . . A weekend in Palm Springs . . . a pool, hot tub . . . friends old and new. You’d think it would be a dream getaway. And it appears to be going in that direction at Second Stage Tony Kiser Theater on West 43 Street on the upscale, Jonathan...
By Alix Cohen . . . “When you start to wonder, you start to think, and there isn’t enough thinking going on.” (Todd Robbins) At 25, Monday Night Magic is the city’s longest running Off-Broadway magic show. Except in Nevada and at private events, the art seemed to...
André De Shields, who has enraptured audiences with his award-winning portrayal of Hermes in Hadestown, Broadway’s Tony Award®-winning Best New Musical, will play his final performance at the Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street) on Sunday, May 29....
By Marilyn Lester . . . In 1925, playwright Barry Connor wrote a fractious drawing-room comedy in The Patsy, whose Broadway success led to a 1928 film (a huge hit and now a classic) starring Marion Davies and Marie Dressler. Many years later, Obie-winning actor David...
The New York Theater Community will come together for 12 hours on Saturday, April 16, 2022 from 10:00 AM to 10:00 PM for 24 online readings and conversations on www.HowlRound.com. We will share our outrage at the bombing of the Donetsk Drama Theater...
By Marilyn Lester . . . There’s a lot of merit and hidden treasure to be discovered in this revival of Richard Greenberg’s 2002 Tony-winning Best Play, Take Me Out. It’s a beautifully written and constructed piece of theater, and the many themes it tackles—homophobia,...
Robert W. Schneider and Shannon Agnew’s new book, Fifty Key Stage Musicals, has been released by Routledge Press; an exploration of fifty musicals whose creation impacted the trajectory of musical theater history. “Fifty Key Stage Musicals" is designed to introduce...
By Ron Fassler . . . With its origins in Greek epic poetry, the clever new musical Penelope: Or How the Odyssey Was Really Written, is using the advertising slogan: “Greece is the Word.” Funny, but there’s also truth in advertising in that statement. What book...
Most Nominations to: Kimberly Akimbo & Oratorio for Living Things - 6; Black No More & On Sugarland - 5 Nominations for the 37th Annual Lucille Lortel Awards for Outstanding Achievement Off-Broadway were announced today by theatre veterans Lilli Cooper and Lea...
By Melissa Griegel . . . The 2022 Theatre Forward Gala took place on April 4th at the Edison Ballroom. The celebration honored Tony and Obie Award winning director, producer, and actor Kenny Leon (Director: A Raisin In the Sun; Steel Magnolias;...
Happening On and Off Broadway: - Mrs. Doubtfire Original Cast Recording & reopening April 14; Science at TFTNC; Chekhov + Turgenev at Sheen Center; SAY 20th Annual Benefit Gala-Mariska Hargitay & Peter Hermann Hosts Houses on the Moon Theater Co premieres...
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